Re: impact of 4k sector size on the IO & FS stack
From: Chris Wedgwood <hidden>
Date: 2007-03-13 06:34:23
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:11:44AM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote:
I'd guess a vast majority of IO will have the end similarly misaligned as the start. Very little filesystem IO is 512 bytes, possibly excluding XFS in an unusual mode.
XFS (mkfs.xfs) can be told what the native sector size is and will adjust writes accordingly.